CBI has closed its preliminary enquiry probe against Internet giant Google over alleged irregularities in Mapathon 2013 — a competition to map utilities across India — due to lack of adequate evidence.

Discard the British-era practice of a separate railway budget and allow entry of private train operators, recommended a committee set up to restructure the nation’s creaky public transporter in a voluminous 323-page interim report on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gave a pep talk to ministers of state with independent charge, exhorting them to work with an agenda and highlight achievements through social media and other platforms.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Delhi on Tuesday decided to start registration of properties in 1,650 unauthorised colonies in the Capital, spelling relief for the over 50 lakh residents living in such areas.

Observing that two men who targeted and raped a Ugandan woman on the assumption that she was “a lonely foreign national” had brought “India in disrepute in the eyes of the world”, a Delhi court has sent the accused to jail for 30 years.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said the Delhi government would be happy to take over the East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) if the Centre was unable to handle it, clearing the decks for another showdown between the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the BJP.

The murder of former INLD MLA Bharat Singh in a shootout has once again highlighted the fact the national Capital is fast becoming a battlefield for small-time gangs which are eager to establish their supremacy in NCR.